2019 circuit board designed in KiCad (colors correspond to KiCad layers - not my choosing, but interesting op art effect). The circuit sings a simple “pretty bird” song as demonstrated in the following video…
birds
birds and electricity /
Detail of new work in progress concerning birds and electricity, 2019
Bird layout /
Bird layout in progress. Details of new work inspired by electricity in nature (and the nature of electricity). March, 2019
Electrical naturalism /
Detail of a work in-progress from a new print series on electrical naturalism, 2019. The circuit on the electronic wren sings “pretty bird” when the lighting is favorable. The antique illustrated bird is an Audubon print.
Female Northern Cardinal /
Chickadee and sparrow /
I continue to model and assemble paper birds for a large sculptural rendition of my winter feeder. Here’s a chickadee and sparrow. The birds
modeled bluejay /
Bluejay for a work in progress, February 2019. Papercraft.
making nature from paper /
Details of work in progress, February 2019. I modeled the objects in CAD software, unfolded the mesh, print patterns on paper, and reassembled them. This is all an exercise to go from nature into my computer and back out again. My conclusion thus far: it is very hard to make nature with a computer.